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Researcher · Medical University of Graz · Austria

Gerhard Litscher

Gerhard Litscher publishes mostly in Complementary and alternative medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies, Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6287-0130 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,664,850
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#10,027
of 43,330
Works
564
Citations
6.9k
Citations per work
12.3
h-index
39
i10-index 193Top 1.6% in Complementary and alternative medicine
Gerhard Litscher

What does Gerhard Litscher research?

Gerhard Litscher's work is mostly in Medicine (49%), Neuroscience (4%).

Health Sciences: 274 works · 48.5% of their workMedicine: 274 works · 48.5% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 137 works · 24.3% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 64 works · 11.3% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 28 works · 4.9% of their workPhysiology: 23 works · 4.1% of their workPharmacology: 22 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 265 works · 47.0% of their workLife Sciences: 25 works · 4.5% of their workNeuroscience: 25 works · 4.5% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 25 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhard Litscher564works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences49%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine27448.5%
  2. Everything else26547.0%
    1. Neuroscience254.5%
  1. 1Complementary and alternative medicine24% of their works
  2. 2Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging11% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Litscher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurological Effects, Acupuncture, Pain Relief, Clinical Trials, Fibroblast Response, Low-Level Laser Therapy, Photobiomodulation and Immunomodulation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurological Effects3392 topics
  2. Acupuncture2902 topics
  3. Pain Relief2902 topics
  4. Clinical Trials2511 topic
  5. Fibroblast Response2511 topic
  6. Low-Level Laser Therapy881 topic
  7. Photobiomodulation881 topic
  8. Immunomodulation792 topics
  9. Complementary Medicine601 topic
  10. Herbal Medicine601 topic
  11. Autonomic Nervous System541 topic
  12. Heart Rate Variability541 topic
  13. Infrared Thermography471 topic
  14. Medical Imaging471 topic
  15. Ayurveda441 topic
  16. Traditional Chinese Medicine441 topic
  17. Cholinergic Antiinflammatory Pathway401 topic
  18. Vagus Nerve Stimulation401 topic
  19. Bee Venom391 topic
  20. Melittin391 topic

Where does Gerhard Litscher work?

Gerhard Litscher's main affiliation in the publication record is Medical University of Graz, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Litscher have?

OpenAlex counts 564 works and 6,927 citations for Gerhard Litscher, an h-index of 39, ranking #1,664,850 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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